Use a 4 quart slow cooker. Put the chicken into your stoneware, and drop the sweet potato chunks on top. Add all the contents of the baked beans, tomato paste, and diced chile. Pour on the pineapple juice. Cover and cook on high for 4 hours, or on low for 6-8. Your stew is done when the chicken is cooked through and the the sweet potatoes are fork-tender.

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This is gross. Really gross. I think it's the tomato paste. I took a few bites to be a good sport, but could tell about 2 hours into it that this wasn't going to be a very good dinner. I thought maybe with some shredded cheese it could be palatable, but it just wasn't. The house smelled like burnt tomato stew, even though the tomato paste mixed with the pineapple juice and bean and chile liquid and there was plenty of moisture. It was just not good.

Aw, sorry about the yuck factor! You lost me at tomato paste and beans in combination with sweet potatoes.I know there's some yucky stuff at McD's but there are times when I am very thankful for McD's!

I was thinking that maybe the chicken, tomatoe paste, regular potatoes, carrots, and green chillie's would all be good together. the pinaple juice would have been good with the chicken and maybe some broccoli and rice ... but that's just me... thanks for posting your misstakes as well as your triumps :)

The picture looked so yummy! And it is good to try recipes with ingredients seem...different....when put together. So, good for you for trying it out. And now I won't! But I am looking forward to trying the tandoori chicken :)Two Crock Pot Erin in CA

I've gone in the drive-thru many times in pj's and slippers. A few nights ago I made clean-out-the-refrigerator stir-fry. It was a disaster. At least that time I was dressed when I headed for the drive-through!

you absolutely made my day, so I had to link to your post. most excellent. and I was equally bummed that it was a flub because I completely suck at cooking but was excited because I have a honking sweet potato AND frozen chicken and I was thinking ... so now my husband and I are going to enjoy a dinner out. yes! victory!

Gluten free at McDonalds: we get a cheeseburger no bun, a fruit and yogurt parfait (NO granola), and apple dippers. For breakfast, scrambled eggs and cheese.McDs french fries contain wheat. In and Out Burgers Fries are the safest. We keep frozen french fries on hand in the house and pop them in to eat alongside our burgers. here's McDs nutrition info.xoxo steph

So I totally had to just laugh and your post promptly made my day. Because I then went home and managed to mess up two consecutive batches of bread dough and ruin the rice for dinner and then the cats tipped over the 25# bag of open sugar I just bought and scattered it all over the floor.So I grabbed the camera and took a few pics and thought "well at least I'm not the only one to flub dinner tonight"

It starts out so promising. Chicken and sweet potatoes are great together, but not with baked beans. (I've got a bitchin' chicken and sweet potato curry recipe, but I've yet to try it in the crockpot.)

This recipe didn't appeal to me and after reading your post...I won't try it! Thanks goodness for McD's...we all have disasters at one time or other.

I did see some recipes that I would like to try. I will be back to get them and see what else you have tried. I love using the crockpot but don't have many recipes. Glad you were honest about your results - LOL - enjoyed reading your post.

I am a huge sweet potato fanatic and was really excited that you had posted a recipe with them...as I read and saw chilis and tomato with it I was a little weirded out but thought hey she recomends it right? NOT! LOL! I love the end result....I have been in the drive thru due to my own concoctions many times...lol!

This post was too funny! I thought the ingredients looked a bit strange to work together as I was reading it and then I got to the end :) I love how you go through the trouble of writing out the entire recipe and directions and then tell us is sucked.

I just started reading your blog a few weeks ago LOVE IT. I love cooking in my crockpot and you have such great ideas! So far I've tried Salsa Chicken and Black Bean Soup and Cream Cheese Chicken, and both were a big hit.

Thank you for your honesty in posting your great recipes AND your flubs :)

I am sorry this recipe did not work out for you because, you see, I really want to like sweet potatoes. I want to like them so badly because they are nutritious and beautiful. I try a new recipe for them every year, and I think this year, this recipe will be the one that makes me like them! I am old, and I have tried a lot of recipes, and I still can't make myself like them. My husband doesn't like them either--guess that makes us a good match. So now you confirm and enable my prejudices to go on. I will visit your blog again and I will give your web address to my college kids so they can eat well from their crock pots. And I will eat lots of carrots and pumpkin to get my vitamin A.

Traditionally my crockpot creations are very boring, they have all featured potatoes, carots, celery, and onion, and broth that compliments the meat. Just this year I have been adding sweet potatoes, I have replaced white potatoes in all my dishes, but they do cook down and get very soft. My family hates tomatoes in the crock pot, but the kids usually add ketchup to the finished product. I have weird kids that don't like regular potatoes but they do like sweet potatoes.

My semi flop tonight was edible, I made chicken and rice soup, I meant to make chicken in rice, no extra broth.... oops.

Yesterday I was baking my first every brisket in the oven, so i put some clearance chicken breasts in the slow cooker as a backup, they where bone in an about 3 lbs, broth, carrots, potatoe, onion, basic seasonings, the briskit was good, so I fished out all the bones and seperated half the meat for later in the week. Refrigerated all. On my stove top today I put broth, chicken and vegeies and added rice, cooked according to rice directions, got chicken and rice soup, oh well, I have more chicken to make something later in the week:D Loving my slow cooker.

I'm Puerto Rican and we make stewed red kidney beans with white potatoes. This recipe also calls for tomato sauce. I used sweet potatoes and added a little cinnamon to bring out the sweet potatoes. It is really good. I usually make this with baked chicken. Your recipe made me just throw the chicken in the crock pot with the beans and sweet potatoes and it was delicious. I'd suggest getting a stewed kidney bean recipe, replace the white potato with sweet, add some cinnamon and throw it in the crock pot with the chicken. It's heavenly.

I love the failures as much as I love the winners! The 1st one I stumbled across I almost cooked because every other recipe on here I had found turned out good when I made it. I'm glad I realized that they aren't all winners before it was too late.

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